From the Great Papal Schism and the Reformation to Vatican Council II and its significance in history, this course explores the events, people, and themes that shaped the Church from the 1300s to the ...
In several of my earlier columns, I touch on the idea of a Second Reformation, a second separation of major imperiums. The First Reformation turned on the separation of church from state. The Second ...
What was the matter with the Protestant Reformation? It might seem like a strange question. Some might say that there was ...
A half century millenium ago today, Martin Luther irrevocably changed the Western world. From a column by Archbishop Charles Chaput comes this passage from Catholic historian Brad Gregory’s recent ...
“What happened at the Reformation? What did it ‘reform’? We see the sixteenth century now as a time of radical change, but looked at in the context of the history of disputes among Christians, it ...
An ecumenical prayer service will be held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Nov. 21 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Travis Heying The Wichita Eagle ...
In some ways, this question seems odd. Of course the Reformation still matters! After all, in 2017, Christians around the world will mark the Reformation’s 500th anniversary. There will be exhibits, ...
The University of Iowa’s Reformation Era book collection is not the most comprehensive in the world, but with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation’s beginning on Oct. 31, UI bibliophiles are ...
With the Protestant and English reformations, and colonization of the New World in the foreground of the 16th-century landscape, six Catholic saints worked behind the scenes on significant reforms and ...
Onofrio Panvinio, in a portrait by Jacopo Tintoretto. (Credit: Public Domain.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Many of the fundamental historical questions surrounding the Protestant Reformation ...
Ahead of the Church of England's General Synod, the Archbishop of Canterbury may be preparing a statement expected to call for repentance for the violence of the English Reformation. "As the Church of ...